An Embroidery of Old Maps and New
By Angela Costi
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An Embroidery of Old Maps and New - Angela Costi
Acknowledgements
From Bondi to Kyrenia
She watched this sea
with its loud waves
demanding the surfer
to almost fall off the board
like she did in the boat
as she stretched to catch
the last apricot
the crew member threw—
there were many hands reaching
for that taste of sunshine—
her body flung
against the boat’s spine
as Poseidon opened his mouth
expecting a feed.
Arrival
You stand in front of glass,
it opens without knocking,
they have women unarmed
sitting at counters, smiling,
Hello, how may I help you?
They pay people to help you.
There are words you must hold like blankets in snow
‘human rights’
‘discrimination’.
You repeat them as third language,
they feel hot on your tongue,
they make you remember a child with broken teeth,
remember a woman with torn womb,
the man eating the dirt.
Here, you can say them
again and again
to many strangers
who will take your story
like a startled baby.
In fits and starts, you come to know words
as soldiers standing at check points
‘allegation’
‘evidence’.
Your story climbs their walls and waits for you
outside their office
knowing
you cannot open the hearts of words
written as law.
Refugee Aerobics
Running feet, marching hearts, waving arms,
they jump, they queue, they plunge
and squeeze into the triangle’s longest line.
They are fed up with hunger
ready to barter their sinews and bones
for our fat and muscle.
They don’t know the moves
yet they know how to climb onto each other’s backs
to build that stack of body upon body
then get that one person at the top
to stretch beyond reach for the highest note,
hold steady when told, wait, still wait
to learn the music
before the words.
Land Mines
She tiptoed through her body,
carefully slid down the medulla
to walk like a whisper,
each step made without an explosion
brought a victor’s muffled cry.
She asked her doctor, What war did I incubate?
Cyprus, Afghanistan, Korea, Cambodia
40,000, 55,000 each country growing people
without arms, legs, and still they continue
to gather their wood by that roadside,
go to school on the path with the new rubber foot.
El Salvador, Vietnam, Angola, Syria
continue to work, marry, have children
cook with their elbow, write with their teeth.
A schwannoma
is built to blast injury
with five trauma